Greater New Orleans

N.O. man is killed in the east

The New Orleans Police Department is investigating the apparent shooting death of a 27-year-old local male on Thursday morning. The name of the victim is being withheld pending notification of family members. The killing occurred at about 6:55 a.m. in the 4500 block of Skyview Drive.

According to investigators, Seventh District officers responded to a call of a "male down" and, upon their arrival, found the victim lying in a high grassy area of a driveway of a vacant house in the 6000 block of Beechcraft Street with a gunshot wound to the body. Emergency medical technicians were summoned to the scene, where he was pronounced dead.